Ángela Stella Matutina on Nostr: I think you'll like [this ...
I think you'll like [this digest](https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/11/star-trek-mad-science/ ) jwz made of several Tumblr posts in the same vein. Two samples:
> Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They're just like "yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience".
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> There's that movie where humans invented vaccines by just testing them on people. Or the one about those two humans who invented powered flight by crashing a bunch of prototypes. Or the one about electricity.
> And human historians go, "Oh, uh, this is historically accurate, but also kind of boring."
> Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They're just like "yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience".
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> There's that movie where humans invented vaccines by just testing them on people. Or the one about those two humans who invented powered flight by crashing a bunch of prototypes. Or the one about electricity.
> And human historians go, "Oh, uh, this is historically accurate, but also kind of boring."